Sentence examples for almost make up from inspiring English sources

Hollingshead's elegant, heartfelt writing and smart research almost make up for the novel's oddly static feeling.

Still, the place has its merits: what the servers lack in skill, which is plenty, they almost make up for in joie de vivre.

The scriptwriters bungled several key set pieces, including the funeral scene – although they almost make up for it with a magical passage where students and teachers raise their wands in tribute.

Volume 3 draws on gigs in France, Japan and the US from 2001 to 2012, and catches him in such thunderous form as to almost make up for his absence.

Two highlights of the interior almost make up for other deficiencies.

These facts from 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off seem almost made up.

'Our Town' was almost made up as we went along.

It almost makes up for the lack of a good search engine.

Luckily the show's three-piece band (Joe Fitzgerald, Dylan Schiavone and Jim Heffernan) almost makes up for that.

It almost made up for the presenter who, earlier that same night, introduced Schilling as Amy Poehler.

But what they have saved per bottle, many have almost made up for in quantity.